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Alex Chaffee says:

The moustaches. XP’s are cooler.

January 23, 2008 at 5:29 pm

Alex Chaffee says:

Serious answer: Scrum is like what you’d get if you took XP, subtracted all the practices having to do with how you actually write code (pairing, testing, refactoring, etc.) and how you estimate stories (no story points, no story/task distinction), replaced XP’s insistence on a linear priority order for stories with a binary “in or out” attribute, and stretched out the iteration length to a month (although some Scrum teams I’ve seen use 2 week sprints).

Of course the reality is a bit more complicated than that, since they have separate genealogies and jargon and stuff. Hopefully what I’ve written above won’t strike any scrummeisters as slanderous.

Scrum works very well if you want to introduce Agile into an organization since it’s less of a horse pill to swallow than XP, and since it focuses on project management and iterations rather than covering everything from how you compose stories to how often you check in code like XP does.